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Response to Low Pay Commission Consultation on the National Minimum Wage

10/09/2008

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4 pages long

Languages: English

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In the long term, the National Minimum Wage (NMW) should aspire to be a living wage that keeps people out of poverty. This requires above inflation and average earnings growth increases as a standard approach for the annual uprating of the NMW. Attention must continue to be paid to the enforcement of the NMW. The […]

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Statement in Response to Announcement of Households Below Average Income Statistics by Department of Work and Pensions

10/06/2008

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1 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam is dismayed that the latest Department of Work and Pension statistics (Households Below Average Income) show there has been a rise of 100,000 in the number of children living in poverty and that 300,000 more pensioners are now living in poverty.

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WAVE Submission to the Austrian Strategic Report on Strategies for Social Protection and Social Inclusion 2008 – 2010

01/06/2008

2 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, German

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Gender-based violence

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WAVE (Women Against Violence Europe) is the biggest Europe-wide network of women’s shelters and women’s support organisations. The WAVE coordination office is located in Austria, in the premises of the Association of Autonomous Austrian Women’s Shelters. WAVE has been supporting women’s organisations in 47 European countries since 1994, in particular through specialized projects concerning the […]

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Business and the Millennium Development Goals: Your call to action

01/05/2008

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6 pages long

Languages: English

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The MDGs were adopted in the context of increasing global insecurity, and poverty was perceived as a key factor fuelling it. The role of business, albeit important, was seen as no more than complementary to the obligation of the international community to meet the Goals. Consequently, the private sector was called upon primarily to ‘make […]

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EU Free Trade Agreements Manual: Eight briefings on the European Union’s approach to Free Trade Agreements

29/02/2008

9 documents

69 pages long

Languages: English

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Trade policy

Overview

These briefings aim to explain EU policies, procedures and practices to those interested in supporting developing countries. They are not intended to endorse any particular policy or position, rather to inform decisions and provide the means to better defend them.

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Memorandum from Oxfam GB as Evidence to the Joint Committee on ESC rights

28/01/2008

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13 pages long

Languages: English

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This submission provides evidence from the Oxfam UK Poverty Programme (UKPP) and some of its partners working on poverty related issues; it illustrates Oxfam’s assertion that, while the UK Government is clearly committed to the relief of poverty and to finding solutions to social exclusion, (as indicated by its social policies and successive redistributive Budgets), […]

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Oxfam Analysis of the Bali Conference Outcomes

15/12/2007

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2 pages long

Languages: English

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Climate finance

Overview

Oxfam analysis of the outcomes of the Bali Climate Change Conference 2007.

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Comments on the UK Government’s 5th Periodic Report under the International Convention on Economic Social and Cultural Rights

01/07/2007

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5 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam believes that Economic Social and Cultural rights are an essential element of a rights-based approach to development, which is our fundamental vision, and of anti-poverty work. Our experience working across the UK with poor and marginalised groups and communities is that people experiencing poverty frequently lack access to a range of economic and social […]

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Thailand: American Bullying Puts Pharmaceutical Company Profits before the Health of Millions

21/06/2006

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8 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

In November 2001, at the World Trade Organisation’s 4th ministerial conference in Doha, the finance ministers of the world reaffirmed that governments are free to take all necessary measures to protect public health. That means that a government has a right to override patents in an ’emergency’. One method of doing this is through ‘compulsory […]

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Oxfam International Submission to World Bank Review of Conditionality, May 2005

14/06/2005

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5 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam International welcomes the World Bank’s decision to review its conditionality practice in 2005. Reforming the way conditionality is designed and applied is critical to improving aid effectiveness, and orienting the aid system as a whole to meet the Millennium Development Goals. However, for the review to make a real difference to the way the […]

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